A heretic is forced to accept an aliyah in shul, and agonizes over the consequences of his sin.
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Flying Prayers
A fellow Chasid is an embarrassing nuisance on a long distance flight - until he isn't.
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Sixteen Inches
“What do the scientists know?” Ari greeted me in the morning with a triumphant smile. “All the technology in the world, all the atheists with all their machines, and nothing. They can’t even predict the weather.”
I looked out the…
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The Ex Thing
At first all we did was hang out with our own. Fellow Chasidim on the fringe, men only. We didn’t know many women, and those we did know weren’t like us at all. With time we progressed. We met friends,…
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A Gitten Chodesh
As if normal people get up early on weekends to mumble prayers to an invisible thing that listens at His discretion.
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The Fish and the Dybbuk
A few years after a fish talked in New Square thus proving that the God of Chasidim is the true one, another proof has surfaced. Rabbi Batzri is attempting to remove a Dubbuk from a Brazilian man…
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The Revolution of the Species
the Revolution. Nu? The one where the Goyim believe that all people were created by the monkeys.
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Green Tuesday
Chaim Mayer’s mother usually calls in on Thursdays to remind him to pick up the lokshen kugel for Shabbos, or of a family member’s shulem zucher, which s’volt gepast that he attend.
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The Departed
A report on the Footsteps organization and the lives of those who leave the ultra-Orthodox world. Article by Orli Santo.
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